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Impact Fee Annual Reports

Pursuant to the Jefferson County Impact Fees Procedures Ordinance, Section 6. A(1), “at least once every year not later than January 31st of each year, beginning in the year 2005, and prior to the County Commission’s adoption of the Annual Budget and Capital Improvements Program, the Impact Fee Coordinator or a designee chosen by the Impact Fee Coordinator shall coordinate the preparation and submission of an Annual Report to the County Executive and County Commission on the subject of impact fees.”

The Impact Fees Procedures Ordinance, Section 6. A(3), goes on to state, “The Impact Fee Coordinator or the Impact Fee Coordinator’s designee shall submit the Annual Report to the County Commission, which shall receive the Annual Report and may take such actions as it deems appropriate, including, but not limited to, requesting additional data or analyses and holding public workshops and/or public hearings.”

Capital Improvement Plans

Pursuant to West Virginia State Code, Chapter 7, Article 20, Section 6 (§7-20-6), counties that have enabled impact fees shall maintain an Impact Fee Program Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The requirement for a yearly Impact Fee Program Capital Improvement Plan, and the identification of Impact Fee Fundable projects, is outlined in Jefferson County Impact Fee Procedures Ordinance 2003-1 Section 3(C) et seq.

Only the projects listed on the CIP are eligible for funding by impact fees, either in whole or in part. Whether a project may be wholly or only partially funded depends upon whether the project is exclusively needed due to new growth or is only partially required due to conditions of new growth.

Some of the capital categories for each of the impact fee entities are shown as being overspent in the FY 2017 Capital Improvement Plan. This is based on the impact fee revenue percentage allocations that are determined from the recent 2015 level of service and impact fees recalculation study. Further impact fee expenditures under those capital categories are therefore being discontinued until receipt of future impact fee revenue brings the capital categories back into a positive balance. Moving forward, future spending in each of the capital categories will be limited to the funds available.